EXPAT COUNSEL
PROPERTY IN THAILAND: Part 5 - Documents of land rights
- Published: 28 Oct 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: Spectrum
A couple of weeks ago, we explained that the Thai constitution protects individual property rights. But how are the rights to land bought, sold and evidenced in Thailand?
The Land Code was first enacted in 1954 but has been amended many times since. Chapter 4 of the code provides that owners get documents of land rights. You may have heard people calling a title a chanote. This means title deed. It's the most definitive right regarding land owned by a private party in Thailand.
There are other kinds of documents of land rights, called utilisation certificates, the NorSor 3, the NorSor 3 Gor and the NorSor 3 Khor. We're going to explain the differences between the chanote and all of these in more depth in later columns, but right now we're going to call all of them, including the chanote, documents of land rights.
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